Tag: switzerland
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Swiss Firm to Embark on First Around-the-World Trip in a Solar Airplane
How far can an airplane expect to travel without fuel? Around the world, if you’re talking about the Solar Impulse 2. Leaders of Swiss firm Solar Impulse unveiled a new solar plane Wednesday and also discussed an ambition nobody has ever accomplished—to fly around the world in a solar plane in 2015. [blackoutgallery id=”330024″] The Solar Impulse…
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The Global Progress of Composting Food Waste
As municipal food composting programs spread across North America and Europe, no city faces a more daunting task than …
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Greenpeace: Syngenta Pesticides Kill Bees
GREENPEACE SWITZERLAND — Greenpeace Switzerland scaled Syngenta’s headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, and dropped a large banner proclaiming “Syngenta Pesticides Kill Bees” …
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More Than Honey: How Dwindling Bee Populations Impact Global Food Supply
CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — For over a decade, the bee population has dwindled, baffling scientists worldwide. And for an insect that is responsible for two-thirds of the world’s food source, their disappearance could …
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Nanowire Solar Cells Raise Efficiency Limit
Scientists from the Nano-Science Center at the Niels Bohr Institut, Denmark and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, have shown that a single nanowire can concentrate the sunlight up to 15 times of the normal sun light intensity. The results are surprising and the potential for developing a new type of highly efficient solar…